The Heat and Water Budget of the Earth's Surface

摘要: Publisher Summary In the last few years, as research attention in earth and atmospheric sciences has been turned toward flows storages of energy matter shells our planet, much basic knowledge obtained that can be organized into three frameworks, whose locus is earth's surface, its variegated small-scale mosaics, continental patterns global distributions, solar rhythms, episodic interruptions, modifications by man. These frameworks are budget radiant exchange, higher echelon neighbor balance or heat, water a particular form matter. The share common accounting procedure expresses their continuity special cases laws conservation mass energy, provides an efficient means organizing large volume information about individual fluxes at surface itself areal differentiation over globe. serve scientists well, first, unifying center for physical geography, second, comparing regions, third, evaluating on brought land, augmented biosphere, geology, dissected streams, mantled with medium stores heat water, plays important role balances also varies, response to changes own character, which affect reception incoming fluxes, access storage, release stored water. value presenting coherent scheme phenomena university classes demonstrated this chapter; shown specific regions.